Finance

Urban Institute research backed by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco suggests using rent and utility reporting for this purpose is complicated but has a net benefit.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency performance report also calls for owner occupants and community groups to get first dibs on over 90% of real-estate owned sales.

The Detroit-based lender said the program will "accelerate loan purchases" and "eliminate significant costs" for its partners

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia also found that interest rate spikes are preventing modification programs from effectively reducing principal and interest payments as originally intended.

The agreement includes roughly $300 million in restitution, and a $100 million civil money penalty that will be one of the largest in New Jersey's history if it receives court approval.

The impairment rate for securitized non-qualified mortgages improved a little in August after increasing slightly the two previous months.

The San Francisco bank tallied $2.2 billion in net operating losses, higher than in any quarter since late 2017. The charges offset what otherwise would have been a strong third-quarter performance.

The slight increase was the first seen since May 2020, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's July report on the performance of loans backed by the government sponsored enterprises it oversees.

The introduction of utility, cable and telco payment information follows noticeable growth in the past year toward the inclusion of rental history in underwriting.

Origination activity dropped quarter-to-quarter by more than prior industry estimates, however.